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Sunday, 9 March 2014

paal kozhukkattai

Paal Kolukkattai

Paal kolukkattai is an authentic south indian food which we make for all the pooja festivals. This is my hubbys and Charan's(my kid) all time favourite food too. My amma and me used to make it in palm jaggery. But my hubby loves to have it with jaggery. So I started making them in normal jaggery. It tastes too good. Here is the recipeIngredients

Rice flour - 1 cup

Jaggery - 1/2 cup

Coconut grated - 1/4 cup

Sukku/Dried ginger - a small piece

Cardamom - 3 to 4

Water - as required

Salt - l/8 tsp

Cooking steps

Sift rice flour and add salt to it

Slowly add water and prepare the dough

Divide the dough into small balls and keep aside

Mince sukku and cardamom and keep aside

Extract 1 cup of coconut milk from the grated coconut

In a pan, add 1 cup of water and jaggery and boil for sometime.

Strain the impurities from jaggery and keep the jaggery water to boil.

Add coconut milk,sukku and cardamom to the jaggery water and boil till it starts rolling

Slowly add rice flour balls to it and keep it closed to cook it fully.

Serve with little ghee.

My 2 cents

Make sure the dough is not sticky .If its sticky by mistake, add little rice flour to bring to the consistency or use squeeze bottle or idiyappam press to directly line the batter inside the jaggery(This version of Kolukattai is too good)

You can seperately cook the rice flour balls and add to the jaggery.

You can use fresh ginger also to substitute for the dried one.

If the jaggery is more watery then you can add little boiled moong dhal or sago(javvarisi) also.